Australia (Capital: Canberra)
Chief of the Australian army, commences four-day visit to India.
Political Features
- Located between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
- Australia is separated from Indonesia by the Timor & Arafura seas (northwest), from Papua New Guinea by the Coral Sea & Torres Strait (northeast).
Geographic features
- Climate: climates ranging from tropical in the north to arid deserts in the interior and temperate coastal regions in the south.
- Natural Resources: Bauxite, coal, iron ore, copper, tin, gold, silver, uranium, nickel, tungsten, diamonds, natural gas, petroleum.
- Australia is the flattest continent on earth and is also the only continent without any glaciers.
